Maryland

state of the United States of America

16 dated entries naming Maryland, drawn from 15 separate years between 1631 CE and 2022 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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17th century

1631May 28 – William Claiborne sails from England to establish a trading post on Kent Island, the first English settlement in Maryland.source
1632June 20 – Charles I of England issues a charter for the colony of Maryland (named in honor of Henrietta Maria), under the control of Lord Baltimore.source
1634March 25 – Leonard Calvert arrives in Maryland, with Jesuit missionaries Andrew White, John Altham Gravenor, and Thomas Gervase, establishing St. Mary's as the fourth permanent settlement in British North America. In this year they also establish an institution of higher learning here, which later becomes Georgetown University, the United States's oldest university.source
1656January 24 – The first Jewish doctor in the Thirteen Colonies of America, Jacob Lumbrozo, arrives in Maryland.source

18th century

1743July 31 – At a summit in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, the British colonies of Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania conclude a treaty with the Six Nations, conceding that the member tribes are entitled to the territory west of the Appalachian mountains and north of the Ohio River.source
1755May 19 – General Braddock hosts Iroquois leaders Scaroyady, Kaghswaghtaniunt and Silver Heels at Fort Cumberland, the British Army base in the colony of Maryland. The three chiefs pledge their alliance with the British in advance of Braddock's expedition into the Ohio Country.source
1781February 2 – The Articles of Confederation are ratified by Maryland, the 13th and final state to do so.source
1781January 2 – Virginia passes a law ceding its western land claims, paving the way for Maryland to ratify the Articles of Confederation.source
1788April 28 – Maryland ratifies the United States Constitution, and becomes the seventh U.S. state.source

19th century

1834February 12 – Freed American slaves from Maryland form a settlement in Cape Palmas, it is named the Republic of Maryland.source
1839March 7 – Baltimore City College, the third public high school in the United States, is established in Baltimore, Maryland.source
1852Loyola College is chartered in Baltimore, Maryland.source
1857October 24 – 28 enslaved people escape their enslavers in Maryland.source
1862September 5 – In the Confederacy's first invasion of the North, General Robert E. Lee leads 55,000 men of the Army of Northern Virginia across the Potomac River at White's Ford near Leesburg, Virginia, into Maryland.source

20th century

1978September 5 – Camp David Accords: Hosted by U.S. President Jimmy Carter, Israel's Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egypt's President Anwar Sadat met at Camp David in Maryland to discuss a peace agreement between the two nations.source

21st century

2022January 10 – The first successful heart transplant from a pig to a human patient occurs in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.source